*** DEVELOPER VERSION - Please use withcaution ***If you are looking for the Robosapien app go tohttps://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.wowwee.roboremoteIntroductionIn our attempt to control a swarm of robots we came up with a firstdraft of an app which will let you connect to a wide range ofdifferent robots, including but not limited to toy robots, cleaningrobots, flying robots and our self developed arduino robot aka"Dotty". The app allows remote control of the different robots andprovides the user with their sensor information. In a later stagethe app will make use of the available sensors of each individualrobot and control the robots either individually or as a swarm,depending on the task.The swarm behaviours available in the app will cover subjects likeplaying (eg. play tag, hide and seek, etc), moving (eg. marching,following, dancing etc), chatting (eg. count each other) andcharting (eg. searching, rescuing, guarding etc).RobotsAvailable Robots are the IRobot Roomba, Lego Mindstorms NXT,Meccano Spykee, Wowwee RoboScooper, Parrot AR Drone and AR Drone2.0, Brookstone AC13 Rover and Rover 2.0, I-Spy Tank, Replicatorand our home-made robot Dotty.The robots can be controlled remotely by means of arrow buttons,the smartphone's built-in accelerometer and the newly addedjoystick. Where available, autonomous functions and individualfeatures can be executed for each robot.Next to the remote control, the sensor data of the robots can bedisplayed on the smartphone. These sensors are individual for eachrobot and range from basic sensors like Light and Battery to Audioand Video Streams.For a more detailed description of each robot as well as support orinformation about setup and prerequisites please refer to the blogposts and forum on our website http://www.dobots.nl.Swarm ActionsAs a first step towards swarm behaviour and to be a simple showcasewe chose to implement dancing for the robots. The available robotscan be grouped and a dance can be created out of simple moves suchas Forward / Backward / Left / Right, etc. Once a dance is started,the robots will execute each move until the dance is over.OutlookThe app is still under heavy development and although a lot of ourcurrent stock of robots were added already there is lots ofinteresting stuff to come- More Robots! A swarm can never be too big! There is still theSurveyor, the SpyGear Trakr, the Finch and the Terrain Twister. Butwe are always looking for more, so if you know of any other robotswith sensor which could be added to our collection let usknow!- We just started to tickle the iceberg of swarm control behavioursand our next ventures will be in the field of Multi RobotSLAM- Interface robots with home automation systems, thus enabling themto interact with their surroundings and/or benefiting from sensorsin their environment.- And not forgetting, the robots want to be hooked up to theInternet and the cloudIf you are interested you should definitely check back on ourwebsite http://www.dobots.nl where we will keep track of thedevelopment. But also the app is completely open source; you canfind the code at https://github.com/eggerdo/swarm-control. Feelfree to contribute and add your own robots to the list or let usknow which ones you want to see added!